Silicon Trust & Provenance Engineering
Trust anchors, provenance chains, and anti-tamper posture engineered for the systems you name — not assessed, engineered.
Why this engagement exists
Trust and provenance are usually assessed, then left as findings. Programs that must actually operate trusted hardware need the trust anchors, provenance chains, and anti-tamper posture engineered into the systems — not a report describing what is missing.
What it looks like in your organization
- Trust assessments produce findings but no engineering path to close them.
- Provenance chains are asserted by vendors but never verified end to end.
- Anti-tamper posture is a requirements line, not an engineered reality.
- Assurance cases cannot be produced because the trust architecture was never built.
What we do and how it works
We engineer the trust posture for the systems you nominate: trust anchors designed and verified, provenance chains established end to end, and anti-tamper posture implemented against the regimes that bind you. Each system is a SiliconAIR unit; the engagement is the engineering around them.
The engagement includes
- System nomination and trust-requirement scoping
- Trust anchor design and verification
- Provenance chain engineering end to end
- Anti-tamper posture implementation
- Assurance case assembly for the engineered systems
What you take away
Every deliverable is named, formatted, and tied to the outcome it enables. Nothing ships as a deck with no use.
Engineered trust architecture
ArchitectureTrust anchors designed and verified for each nominated system.
The systems carry engineered trust, not assessed findings.
Verified provenance chains
Provenance chainsEnd-to-end provenance established and verified for the systems in scope.
Provenance is a verified fact, not a vendor assertion.
Anti-tamper posture
Posture implementationAnti-tamper posture implemented against the regimes that bind the systems.
Tamper resistance is an engineered property of the systems.
Assurance case
Assurance caseThe assurance case assembled for the engineered systems, ready for review.
Assurance questions are answered from the engineered reality.
How this engagement runs
Nominate and scope
Week 1The systems and their trust requirements are scoped. Each system is a SiliconAIR unit; the engineering scope follows.
A locked engineering scope per system.
Design trust anchors
Weeks 1–3Trust anchors designed and verified for each system against the regimes that bind it.
Engineered trust anchors, verified.
Establish provenance
Weeks 3–6Provenance chains established end to end; anti-tamper posture implemented.
Provenance and tamper resistance are engineered realities.
Assemble the assurance case
Weeks 6–8The assurance case is assembled for the engineered systems, closed with a readout.
A review-ready assurance case for each system.
How the fee is built
The engagement fee moves on three multipliers — sensitivity, involvement, and organization type — and the platform units the work consumes are their own lines. Nothing is hidden inside a flat number.
Sensitivity
×0.90 – ×1.30 on the engagement feeSensitivity sets the handling envelope around the whole engagement: how data moves, where evidence lives, who can touch it, and what containment we must maintain. Higher sensitivity means cleared handling, segregated evidence, and slower, more deliberate operations — real cost that a flat fee would hide.
Open information. Standard handling, no containment overhead.
Proprietary business information. NDA-grade handling and controlled evidence storage.
Compliance-bound data. Framework controls and audit-ready evidence handling shape the work.
Defense-grade pathways. Cleared handling, boundary containment, and evidence segregation inside your perimeter.
Involvement
×0.85 – ×1.35 on the engagement feeInvolvement is how much Multipolar operator time is on the hook. Counsel at checkpoints is a different commitment than embedded delivery inside your team, your systems, and your cadence. The multiplier tracks senior hours actually committed — not a markup.
We advise and interpret; your team executes. Senior counsel at defined checkpoints.
We run the engagement end to end, with your stakeholders at the decision points.
Embedded delivery. Our operators work inside your team until the outcome is actually in place.
Organization type
×0.85 – ×1.25 on the engagement feeThe same technical work lands differently depending on who is buying it. Federal and defense engagements carry procurement, compliance, security review, and stakeholder alignment that a mid-market engagement does not. The multiplier prices the coordination and accountability surface, not the analysis.
Fewer stakeholders, faster decisions, lighter coordination overhead.
The baseline: standard commercial engagement surface.
Public-sector procurement and multi-agency stakeholder surface.
Investment-platform cadence: deal-driven timelines and IC audiences.
Joint-delivery and enablement motions with partner delivery teams.
Assurance functions: evidence standards and underwriting audiences.
Federal procurement, compliance crosswalks, and multi-office alignment.
Mission-critical review, security handling, and acquisition-process alignment.
Scope & scale of platform units
The largest component of most totalsEvery engagement consumes platform units — CYBAIR workloads, AIR organization bands, GENOMIA twins, WINS scenarios, SiliconAIR systems. Units track your estate, not our appetite for flat pricing: an 8-workload assessment and a 50-workload assessment are different engagements and are priced as such. You set the scope in the configurator; the total moves with it, and nothing is quietly under-scoped to fit a number.
Simulation compute
Estimated until configured · billed on actualsWINS simulations carry real compute costs that scale with scenario count, branching depth, and campaign length. A focused single-scenario game and a sustained multi-agent campaign are orders of magnitude apart. Facilitation and after-action are in the fee; compute is estimated once the game is configured, then billed on actuals — you pay for what actually runs, never a padded average.
Platform units in this engagement
Units track your estate, not our appetite for flat pricing. You set the scope; the total moves with it. Each unit below is consumed by this engagement and billed as its own line.
Each hardware-bound system profiled for trust, provenance, and silicon posture — the hardware dimension of CYBAIR.
The number of systems you nominate for assessment. This is posture on systems you run or plan to run — not Phase 0 chip-program scoping.
What the engagement fee covers
- Scoping, workshops, and interpretation
- Every deliverable listed on this page
- Cross-framework mapping where the package includes compliance
- Executive translation — board, program-office, or IC language
- Handoff and a defensible next-step recommendation
What it does not cover
- Platform units consumed by the work (shown as their own lines)
- WINS simulation compute (estimated, then billed on actuals)
Frequently asked questions
No. Hardware Trust Assessment scores posture; this engagement engineers it. If you need to know where you stand first, start with Hardware Trust.
Ready to brief us on the Silicon Trust & Provenance Engineering?
We choose who we work with and confirm scope, capacity, and final pricing in the briefing.